The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

"The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectives; methods and models; language change interfaces; regional summaries. Each of the thirty-two chapters iswritten by a specialist in the field and provides: a[n] introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area"--

Product details

• Authors: Claire Bowern, Claire Evans Bowern, Bethwyn Evans
• Assisted by: Claire Bowern (Editor), Bethwyn Evans (Editor), Evans Bethwyn (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780415527897
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52789-7
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 255 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics; Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics; Routledge Handbooks in Linguis
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language: history & general works, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language: history and general works, Historical and comparative linguistics